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Thursday, May 08, 2008

Confiture de Christine Ferber

Maybe I should re-phrase that... Can I ever have too much jam, preserves, confiture?

Christine Ferber Confiture, original watercolor

Just give me a spoon and a good jar of jam and I'm as happy as a clam. Which is why I can never bring jam into the house. I'll eat it!

It's also why Paris is one land mine after another for me.

Everywhere you go there is jam (confiture) staring you in the face like here at Chateau Vaux le Vicomte. - ahhhh...pear with walnuts.. YUM!Did you know that ANGELINA sells JAM!? YUP they do.

My dad used to make strawberries preserves in the summer - he was from Iowa. And my grandmother used to arrive bearing gifts of huge jars of cherry preserves. is that the root of my obsession? These days all I'm allowed is very tiny jars of jam :( Doll house size in fact... Quelle domageCourseMaxie can have all the jam he wants. Here he is at cafe Le Valentine in the 9th.What's your favorite jam?BONNE JOURNEE!

28 comments:

Mmmmmm...I'm with you, Carol! I could eat any one of those with great pleasure. I think for me it is because of my grandmother's jams. Proust really was right about those madeleines, and our powers of remembrance...your paintings are exquisite and make me want to go have some jam on toast right now. With a cup of tea, like grandma.

I saw a jar of confiture "peche de vigne". I was fortunate to try some of my aunt's peche de vigne and it is soooooo good. It's a variety of peach that grows on a vine and my aunt has them in her garden in the Lorraine region... I wish I could have some now!

Hi Paris Breakfast,very nice water color above. Soft and dreamy.I haven't forgotten you, that this is your special month. Would you be kind enough to email me your mailing address. Would like to send you something next week.merci beaucoup!Constance

In August 2001 we took an apartment on Ile Saint Louis for 10 days and showed our young tweens Paris. My son Malcolm (@ 13, the oldest) pooh-poohed the entire idea of living in Paris for a bit until he met fresh baked baguettes /croissants, French butter and framboise confiture. As a matter of fact, confiture is the only French word he retained!

My mother makes raspberry jelly from the plants in her Pittsburgh PA back yard. Both my daughters love to help her. aybe you would like a jar? It is prized in our household.Have a great day!Irene

Ahhh jam! When I was in Paris several years ago I noticed the jams. I came home and started my own jam company called Marmalady's. I have some wonderful jams infused with tea, such as Apricot Darjeeling Jam and Cranberry Ginger Tea Marmalade.Marilyn

Like Irene's son, confiture is one of the few words my He-weasel/husband can remember. Sometimes he confuses voiutre with confiture. Je "voudrais une baguette avec voiture."It always makes me laugh. Will that be a strawberry or a cherry car?

Remind me to get a jar of that peche du vigne at La Maison du Chocolate! one more reason that is THE place for me. (Can both those "du"s be correct?) I saw Christine on Martha and vowed to buy her book as soon as I saw her very French scarf (Hermes I think). After all, one's jam-making skills are totally proportionate to one's fashion sense.I have bought many jars of American Spoon Jams, and I feel sure those American Spooners are great dressers. And of course, I consider Dundee Orange marmalade a pantry staple, though I will NEVER forgive them for changing the jars from pottery to some opaque glass! However, the only ones I am tempted to eat with a spoon are the fruit butters - apricot, peach, raspberry, yummmmm!

I took almost the same picture as your third one (C.Ferber)! :))They are very yummy and special, aren't they?Yesterday, I was at my friend's and we baked some breakfast buns with Magnolia's Bakery bake book.

Lordie,Carol you were born with a sweet tooth! *giggle* Watch Maxie slurp up your tea in no time, he wouldn't mind a bite or two of the croissant, before be hides it under my best rug! Please be informed that in Vienna you'll find jam jars aplenty, for instance apricot jam made with the sweetest ripest rose apricots. Now you made me think of raiding my fridge! ;-)

We had the best jam treats ever this trip to France....the gite owner had some homemade peach jam waiting for us (along with bread, cake and coffee! sooo sweet!) and then my French aunt gave us gorgeous jars of homemade figue et citron, myrtilles, and abricot. She had the cutest little tags on them...I have to make jam this summer and copy her!!! :)Great post today!

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